$15 bottle, $12.75 wine club, $5 glass 2014 Blanc Du Bois $18 bottle, $15.30 wine club, $5 glass $22 bottle, $18.70 wine club, $8 glass 2015 Roussanne Barrel Reserve $23 bottle, $19.55 wine club, $8 glass Full Quill Petie Sirah Several DFW area Albertsons are now stocking our award winning dry white wine. Our Texas Viognier has been recognized at the San Francisco International Wine Competition and was voted TEXAS BEST DRY WHITE at last year's Grapefest in Grapevine, TX. Here's where to find us: 1201 N. Saginaw Blvd. | 6308 Lake Worth Blvd. | 4400 Western Center Blvd. | 8428 Denton Hwy | 10800 N. Beach St. | 9300 Clifford St. | 8333 NE Alsbury Blvd. | 6700 West Freeway | 4351 FM 2181 | 4000 Glade Rd. | 4625 Frankford Rd. | 2150 N. Josey Lane | 3001 S Central Expressway | 6800 W. Virginia Parkway | 320 Casa Linda Plaza | 3562 Alton Rd. | 6220 US Hwy 287 | 4126 S. Carrier Pkwy.

Our complete portfolio of wines is available for purchase, Thursday through Sunday, at our tasting room north of Saint Jo, Texas. Blue Ostrich wines may also be also shipped anywhere throughout the state of Texas via UPS. Just call us at 940-995-3100 to place an order. You can also find many of our Blue Ostrich wines at these Texas retailers and restaurants: J Macklins Grill | wine shop red hill130 N. Denton Tap Roadbuy wine in india online Prairie House Restaurant | man o war wine10001 Highway 380 | best red wine brands in india Pourhouse Sports Grill | best italian red wine types

3350 Unicorn Lake Blvd Metzlers Bar B Q | Giuseppe's Italian Restaurant | 821 N Locust Street6100 Long Prairie Road Sarah's On The Square | 115 W California St. Serna's Mexican Cuisine | Off The Vine | 324 South Main Street La Buena Vida Vineyards | Dieter Bros Restaurant | 401 E Hwy 82121 West Debbie Lane Doc's Bar & Grill | 113 N. Main Street Lazy Heart Grill | best selling wine in us 2014 Local Boys Liquor | best red wine for pregnancy Ganache Cupcake Lounge | best wines to give as presentsDelaney Vineyards offers private labels on any of our fine wines.best wine years new zealand You can email, mail, or deliver us your text, picture, logo or whatever you would like to appear on the label.

A sample of the label is shown below for spacing and sizing of your order. Private labels - $7.50 (per bottle) plus cost of the wine. Shipping charges also apply if the wine is not picked up at the winery. Since 1995 Delaney Vineyards has won more than 120 medals in national and international wine competitions. Listed below are awards from recent years. Gold Medal 2010 Chardonnay Bronze Medal 2007 Cynthiana Silver Medal 2007 Sauvignon Blanc   Bronze Medal 2007 Muscat Canelli Silver Medal 2007 Muscat Canelli Silver Medal 2003 Three Daughters   Bronze Medal 2006 Chardonnay Reserve   Bronze Medal 2007 Cynthiana Bronze Medal 2003 Three Daughters Bronze Medal 2006 Chardonnay Reserve   Bronze Medal 2007 Sauvignon Blanc Silver Medal 2006 Chardonnay Reserve   Silver Medal 2003 Three Daughters Silver Medal 2003 Three Daughters   Silver Medal 2006 Chardonnay Reserve Silver Medal 2006 Chardonnay Reserve (First Place) 2006 Chardonnay Reserve

Silver Medal 2003 Three Daughters Bronze Medal 2006 Chardonnay Reserve Bronze Medal 2005 Cynthiana Silver Medal 2003 Chardonnay Reserve Bronze Medal 2003 Cynthiana First Place 2003 Chardonnay Reserve Third Place 2003 Merlot Third Place Sweet Texas Red Silver Medal 2002 Three Daughters Silver Medal 2003 Cynthiana Bronze Medal 2003 Sauvignon Blanc Gold Medal 2002 Sauvignon Blanc Best in Show 2002 Sauvignon Blanc Bronze Medal Sweet Texas Red Bronze Medal 2002 Chardonnay Bronze Medal 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon Bronze Medal Texas Rose Bronze Medal (Texas Champion) Champagne Bronze Medal (Texas Champion) Sweet Texas Red Bronze Medal (Texas Champion) 2002 Sauvignon Banc Bronze Medal 2002 Texas Rose Bronze Medal Texas Claret Bronze Medal 2002 Three Daughters Silver Medal 2003 Merlot Silver Medal Texas Claret Silver Medal Texas Rose Bronze Medal 2002 Chardonnay Reserve

Bronze Medal 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon International Competition - Bronze Medal Texas Rose Star of Texas Grand Award White Wine 1999 Sauvignon Blanc Gold Medal 1999 Sauvignon Blanc Silver Medal 2001 Merlot Bronze Medal 2001 Chardonnay International Competition - Gold Medal Texas Claret International Competition - Bronze Medal 1999 Sauvignon Blanc International Competition - Bronze Medal Sauvignon Blanc 1999 International Competition - Silver Medal Sauvignon Blanc 1999 Bronze Medal Muscat Canelli 1998 Bronze Medal Sauvignon Blanc 1997 Bronze Medal Cabernet Sauvignon (Lamesa) 95 Bronze Medal Cabernet Sauvignon (Grapevine) 96 Bronze Medal Cabernet Sauvignon (Lamesa) 96 Bronze Medal Texas White International Competition - Bronze Medal Midland Gold Silver Medal Barrel Fermented Chardonnay 1996By Andrew Chalk     photos by Robert Bostick Texas Viognier soundly trounced California and French wines made from the Viognier grape.

The judges were professional sommeliers from Dallas restaurants including The Pyramid Room, The Dallas Country Club, The Gaylord Texan, Sēr at The Hilton Anatole and Kitchen LTO among others. All of the wines were tasted blind (i.e. nobody knew the identity of the wines – they were in numbered brown bags). The wines were not just a sample, but every Viognier made in Texas (the only absentee that I know of was Cap Rock Winery, which is undergoing some turmoil at present).  Plus, we had two high scoring California Viognier wines and a wine from the putative home of the grape in the modern era – Condrieu in the northern Rhone region of France. I put together this tasting because, after four years touring over 80 Texas wineries, I have concluded that Viognier is the white grape that has proved most successful in the state. In fact, I felt it had reached a level that was comparable with California Viognier (although maybe not that of France). I was baffled that the national wine media such as Wine Spectator, The Wine Advocate and Wines and Spirits did not include Texas wines when they evaluated Viognier.

Clearly, this was a matter that only the facts would settle: a blind tasting of French, California and Texas Viognier by expert palates to determine where the wines stood. I contacted every Texas winery and asked them to supply two bottles of each Viognier they made that was currently available for resale. The wineries came through enthusiastically with 13 wineries supplying 16 wines. Next, I needed a strong California benchmark for comparison. I asked Sigel’s wine buyer, Jasper Russo, to pick three, and I would buy the first two I found at retail in Dallas.  He suggested: Miner Family Vineyard, Calera, and Melville. I found the 2010 Calera, Mt. Harlan, $34 (91 points, Wine Advocate) and the 2011 Melville Estate Viognier “Verna’s”, $25 (91 points, International Wine Cellar) and purchased them. Finally, I needed a wine from the modern home of the Viognier grape, and the place that is still regarded as the benchmark for Viognier. I chose the 2011 Saint Cosme, Condrieu because this $65 wine scored over 94 points out of 100 in web reviews and is made by maybe the most decorated producer in the Rhône over the past two years.

I expected this wine to win hands down, the compensation being that it was over twice the price of most of the Texas entrants. I figured that if I did the judging the results would be about as credible as Paris Hilton discussing Newton’s Laws of Motion. So I emailed every professional sommelier in town and invited them to be a judge.  and spent two hours in silence comparing nineteen wines and passing written judgment. I excluded myself from the scores reported below as I was involved in the packaging and preparation for the tasting. I also knew the identity of the non-Texas wines and any of this could be conceived as biasing the result. Here are the full results. 1)      All the wines from Texas wineries are designated “Texas Viognier” on the label. 2)      Texas wine prices are from the winery web site for a single bottle purchase. Case discounts usually apply. Prices for the other wines are single bottle prices that I paid at retail stores in Dallas.

The clarity of the results is stunning. I had hoped Texas would be close behind the Californians and the Condrieu. In fact, no fewer than six Texas wines beat the first non-Texas wine (the Melville from California), and the expensive Condrieu was beaten by 12 Texas wines. The top three were all experienced Texas producers: Pedernales Cellars in Stonewall in the southern Hill Country, Brennan Vineyards in Comanche, a scant 90 minutes drive from Dallas, and Becker Vineyards, probably the best known of these three producers, also in Stonewall .  Two relatively new producers that I have already acquired a lot of respect for: McPherson Cellars out of Lubbock in The High Plains, and Lost Oak Winery, in Burleson, just south of Fort Worth, placed fourth and fifth. It is hard to convey how much these dominant Texas results understate the promise of the Texas wines. These five wineries are relative upstarts compared with their out-of-state brethren. Every year they learn more about their vineyards, their climate, wine making and how these things interact.

In this context, the future of Viognier in Texas is bright indeed. Writing about the winning wine, 2012 Pedernales Cellars Reserve, Russell Burkett  (wine director at Sēr at The Hilton Anatole) commented that it had “ripe stone fruits, long finish, notes of honeysuckle and white flowers and light minerality”. Aaron Benson, sommelier at the Dallas Country Club, described it as “classic Viognier…an underlying minerality balances the redolent ripe fruit” and gave it a commanding 92/100 point rating. Regarding the second-placed 2011 Brennan Vineyards, Hunter Hammett, sommelier of The Fairmont Hotel, Dallas gave some advice to the winemaker that it was “a bit thin to be excellent but a great example of this classic Rhône varietal”. Simon Holguin, general manager at the forthcoming Kitchen LTO, said that it “finishes delicately”. I asked Benson and Hammett, two judges who work the floor each night trying to deliver the most suitable wine to their customers, about selling Texas Viognier.

They both said that selling a Texas Viognier is no harder than selling any other Viognier. The problem is selling Viognier. It is a “hand sale”, meaning that it is up to the sommelier to make the case to the customer, who typically has over 100 choices on the wine list. Hammett suggested wineries provide more guidance as to what food was intended to go with the grape. He pointed out that the choice of compatible food is not as broad as with Sauvignon Blanc or Chardonnay. That leads to an idea: maybe Texas wineries should tour the state giving presentations to chefs on Texas Viognier food and wine pairings? Texas Viognier has come of age. For the customer, next time you shop for a white wine, consider purchasing one. Next time you are looking for a white wine on a restaurant wine list, ask for a Texas Viognier. Even if there isn’t one on the list at the time, sommeliers choose based on customer feedback. If you are a sommelier, check the results of this tasting for the quality and value most suitable for your list.